Disease Control strategies

India has a huge livestock population supporting the socio-economics of the majority of the population. The country with a geographic area of 3,287,240 sq.km supports 300 million bovines, 65.07 million sheep, 135.2 million goats, and about 10.3 million pigs as pe...

Veterinary Service Delivery and Practice Management

A problem tree provides an overview of all the known causes and effect to an identified problem.
The following diagram was prepared in the context of veterinary service delivery in India. This is a living d...

Farming and Enterprise Management

While delivering a lecture to a batch of educated dairy farmers I showed them a picture of a man, who was 8 feet tall and weighed 350 kg, and asked them if they would agree to marry their daughter or sister with such a person. The farmers’ response was a firm ‘No’ and the reason expressed was:...

Livestock Development Stories

The Sector at a glance:
Livestock is the integral part of the mixed-farming system that characterizes agriculture in Assam. Besides contributing to food and crop production, livestock and poultry are as important as savings. For ma...